"Pfft, pfft~"
After the bone giant's head exploded, a stream of red-white viscous energy splattered out from inside its skull.
"Brain matter?"
Xu Xiaoshou blanked for a moment.
This thing was made entirely of bones, without even a scrap of muscle. How could it have brain matter?
He quickly realized something was off.
The viscous fluid that had splashed out contained energy so vast it was almost excessive.
Xu Xiaoshou even felt that this stuff surpassed pills like the Yuan Ting Pill.
If it were condensed into a core...
"An energy core?"
Yu Zhiwen's words from earlier suddenly flashed through his mind.
"That's it. This should be the White Skeleton's source of power, something akin to a spiritual cultivator's... energy sea?"
Xu Xiaoshou immediately waved a hand. As Spirit Threads flowed, a simple spirit-gathering array appeared.
"Ho!"
With a swirl of airflow, all the red-white viscous fluid gathered into his palm.
Scalding, sticky, and giving off a scorched, acrid stench.
"An Emberlight aura..."
Xu Xiaoshou frowned.
He had actually sensed an aura from the same lineage within this fluid. It was faint, but undeniably there.
"Elder Sang said the Emberlight Grand Fire Seed appeared here. And now this stuff has an Emberlight aura too."
"Could it be that things like Emberlight Fire Seeds all spread out from here?"
Xu Xiaoshou suddenly understood.
If it was an "energy core"...
Wasn't a core an "Emberlight Fire Seed"? That energy fire seed which had tortured him half to death—had it been obtained from the White Cavern? Had it been knocked out of the head of an even more advanced bone giant?
The moment Xu Xiaoshou realized this, his expression soured.
He had truly believed the Emberlight Grand Fire Seed was something special, something only alternate-dimensional spaces could produce.
Yet it seemed that the